Social and political tensions keep on fueling armed conflicts around the world. Although each conflict is the result of an individual context-specific mixture of interconnected factors, ethnicity a...
Collective Action and the Evolution of Social Norms by Elinor Ostrom. Published in volume 14, issue 3, pages 137-158 of Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2000, Abstract: I assume multiple types of players--"rational egoists," as well as "conditional cooperators" and "willing punishers"--in mo...
The Homeland Investment Act provided a tax holiday for the repatriation of foreign earnings. Advocates argued the Act would alleviate financial constraints by r
Kus, B. 2012. “Financialisation and Income Inequality in OECD Nations: 1995-2007.” Economic and Social Review 43(4): 477–495.
Climate change may negatively impact education among children via exposure to extreme temperature and precipitation conditions. We link census data from 29 countries across the global tropics to hi...
This paper proposes a new methodology for multidimensional poverty measurement consisting of an identification method ρk that extends the traditional …
Rising affluence in major developing countries (principally China and India) and increasing diversion of agricultural resources for energy production …
Slicing Up Global Value Chains by Marcel P. Timmer, Abdul Azeez Erumban, Bart Los, Robert Stehrer and Gaaitzen J. de Vries. Published in volume 28, issue 2, pages 99-118 of Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2014, Abstract: In this paper, we "slice up the global value chain" using a decomposit...
Greenwood, J., N. Guner, G. Kocharkov and C. Santos. 2015. “Corrigendum to Marry Your Like: Assortative Mating and Income Inequality.”
Laura Chadwick, Gary Solon, Intergenerational Income Mobility among Daughters, The American Economic Review, Vol. 92, No. 1 (Mar., 2002), pp. 335-344
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The global impacts of river floods are substantial and rising. Effective adaptation to the increasing risks requires an in-depth understanding of the physical and socioeconomic drivers of risk. Whe...
Global economic activity is picking up with a long-awaited cyclical recovery in investment, manufacturing, and trade, according to Chapter 1 of this World Economic Outlook. World growth is expected to rise from 3.1 percent in 2016 to 3.5 percent in 2017 and 3.6 percent in 2018. Stronger activity, expectations of more robust global demand, reduced deflationary pressures, and optimistic financial markets are all upside developments. But structural impediments to a stronger recovery and a balance of risks that remains tilted to the downside, especially over the medium term, remain important challenges.
Capital Accumulation, Private Property, and Rising Inequality in China, 1978–2015 by Thomas Piketty, Li Yang and Gabriel Zucman. Published in volume 109, issue 7, pages 2469-96 of American Economic Review, July 2019, Abstract: We combine national accounts, surveys, and new tax data to study the ac...
For decades, US multinational corporations (MNCs) conducted nearly all their research and development (R&D) within the United States. Their focus on R&D at home helped establish the United States as the unrivaled leader of innovation and technology advances in the world economy. Since the late 1990s, however, the amount of R&D conducted overseas by US MNCs has grown nearly fourfold and its geographic distribution has expanded from a few advanced industrial countries to many parts of the developing world, creating an innovation system that spans the globe.
Skelton, J.A., M.B. Irby, J.G. Grzywacz and G. Miller. 2011. “Etiologies of Obesity in Children: Nature and Nurture.” Pediatric Clinics 58(6): 1333–1354.
We study household income inequality in both Great Britain and the United States and the interplay between labour market earnings and the tax system. …
Bardhan, P. 2000. “Irrigation and Cooperation: an Empirical Analysis of 48 Irrigation Communities in South India.” Economic Development and Cultural Change 48(4): 847–865.
Abstract. We investigate whether civil wars have economic causes. The model is based on utility theory, rebels will conduct a civil war if the perceived be
Climate change, especially the warming trend experienced in recent years by several countries, could affect agricultural productivity. As a consequenc…
